If you have coal, it's your coal and foreigners can't come here and mine it and take it away. That's our good luck. We have coal, but we can't grow bananas or avocados. So we have to buy those, not steal them from someone else's territory. If you haven't got coal, you have to sell what you do have and buy coal if you need it. If you have gold or diamonds in them thar hills, the same. Australia is extremely rich in iron ore, so much so that flogging it to the Chinese enabled Oz to bypass the recession. Good luck to them, its their stuff. We should draw a line on the map around all our shoreline exactly half way from other countries, and say that any foreign fishing boat that trespasses inside that line will be sunk by our navy. The boundary limit in open ocean should be at least a hundred miles offshore. Those fish are ours. We should have to agree a responsible fishing policy, but, other than that, they're ours alone. And no Wild West in the open oceans either: we need sensible international treaties for maintaining ecosystems and fish stocks. I'd be the first to admit that the EU fisheries policy is a total balls-up.